Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A wing center section for a B-24 bomber in a bomb bay mating jig at a Western aircraft plant. At this same plant is also built the new consolidated transport, an adaptation of the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87 and is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges for high accuracy bombing missions. It proved itself an excellent performer in the Pacific, in Northern Africa, Europe and the Aleutians
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Date
01/01/1942
Contributors
Hollem, Howard R., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
Location
Fort Worth (Tex.)
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32.72528, -97.32083
Source
Library of Congress
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